8 Bible Verses about Forsaking Sin

He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.

If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;

Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,

My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;

If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.